| New Stand - Capacity 17:25 - Nov 27 with 4423 views | ipswichtillidie |
What do you think MA has in mind for capacity to make us financially equipped to remain competitive. My gut is telling me 40,000. That would be some stand. We have 6000 on the waiting list, would 40k be over-egging it or a more sustainable level to future proof the club for regular PL football. History obviously weighs heavy in regards previous expansions.
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| New Stand - Capacity on 11:45 - Nov 28 with 451 views | urbanpenguin |
| New Stand - Capacity on 10:24 - Nov 28 by lurcher |
Yes potentially adding seats either side of the new media area will help raise capacity. The north stand disabled sections are a bit of a loss. They have lots of empty space and necessitate actual seats not being sold. Surely they can do something better with the corner where the North meets the cobbold. That little plinth that once had seats on it could be taken out and a better disabled section created. |
I recently visited the new Everton stadium as I was reviewing it for an American architecture magazine. There was a lot about the ground I did not like, but one thing that was incredibly impressive was the access for supports with disabilities.
Importantly, every single section of the ground had disabled accessible areas, they were not simply given one area. This means that a fan who has a seat in an area and then develops a disability does not need to move elsewhere, but can remain with their friends, with the view they like, and the atmosphere they have known. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:46 - Nov 28 with 446 views | Bobbychase |
| New Stand - Capacity on 17:44 - Nov 27 by lurcher |
We will extend the west stand first.
I expect the ground will go to 40. |
I think Ashton backtracked on that idea in the latest video |  |
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| New Stand - Capacity on 11:52 - Nov 28 with 424 views | urbanpenguin |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:46 - Nov 28 by Bobbychase |
I think Ashton backtracked on that idea in the latest video |
He said: "We continue to look at do we do something with the West Stand first, increase capacity there before we do Portman Road. We're also looking at the practice pitch and how developments could take place behind the West Stand and link in to the West Stand." | | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:55 - Nov 28 with 403 views | OldFart71 |
Listening to Mark Aston I doubt anything will happen that is unsustainable. As he said it will have to work 365 days a year.
Of course there's never a guarantee that Town could get into the Premier League and stay there.
Our aim must be to be better than the likes of Everton,Fulham and Crystal Palace, all sort of mid table teams and occasionally be able to beat the man City's, Man Utd's etc.
Obviously it would be great to be like we were under Sir Bobby but times are much different and the money generated by teams able to pull in plus 50,000 crowds and worldwide status means that it would be unlikely that we could consistently compete with them.
Cautiously I'd say around 37,000 would be adequate to both accommodate the one's still wanting ST's and the increased away support of Premier teams. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:57 - Nov 28 with 398 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:41 - Nov 28 by longtimefan |
I might be being a bit thick here ( more than likely) but isn’t it likely the case that most of the 6k on the waiting list are those already attending on a match by match basis. By that token, doesn’t the fact that the list is 6k mean there may not be a demand much in excess of 30k ? |
Yes, today that is a fair assessment - but you need to be thinking 5 years from now, and where we (hopefully) will be. The situation last year is also a good reference. Thousands of people who it seems wanted, but couldn't get tickets. | | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:06 - Nov 28 with 340 views | Sharkey |
I'm quite surprised by the relative modesty of Bournemouth's plans, which I think suggest about 23,00. Bournemouth/Christchurch/Poole is a big place (400,000) and Dorset has a population roughly as big as Suffolk's. Obviously there are significant differences from Town - the lower number of 'in the blood' fans, the fact that the nearest neighbours across a county border are Southampton rather than Colchester and Cambridge, and so on, but I'm still surprised they're not thinking a bit bigger. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:27 - Nov 28 with 318 views | lurcher |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:45 - Nov 28 by urbanpenguin |
I recently visited the new Everton stadium as I was reviewing it for an American architecture magazine. There was a lot about the ground I did not like, but one thing that was incredibly impressive was the access for supports with disabilities.
Importantly, every single section of the ground had disabled accessible areas, they were not simply given one area. This means that a fan who has a seat in an area and then develops a disability does not need to move elsewhere, but can remain with their friends, with the view they like, and the atmosphere they have known. |
I thought accommodating disabled sections in all new areas was a rule. Or it was when they added a tier to Churchmans and then a the new 2 tier North some years back. Given the move of section 6 a dedicated disabled section with better views down in that corner could be good for everyone. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:29 - Nov 28 with 304 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| New Stand - Capacity on 11:52 - Nov 28 by urbanpenguin |
He said: "We continue to look at do we do something with the West Stand first, increase capacity there before we do Portman Road. We're also looking at the practice pitch and how developments could take place behind the West Stand and link in to the West Stand." |
He actually caught himself, and adjust what he said if you relisten to it. I picked up on it at the time. He seemed to start by indicating we'd considered it (with seemingly an implication that it had been parked), and the seemed to catch that, and say 'we continue to look at it''
I may be reading too much into his phrasing at the time, but I did think it odd at the time, and though he 'corrected' himself, not yet wanting to publicly say it's been decided against. | | | |
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| New Stand - Capacity on 13:57 - Nov 28 with 268 views | urbanpenguin |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:29 - Nov 28 by SuffolkPunchFC |
He actually caught himself, and adjust what he said if you relisten to it. I picked up on it at the time. He seemed to start by indicating we'd considered it (with seemingly an implication that it had been parked), and the seemed to catch that, and say 'we continue to look at it''
I may be reading too much into his phrasing at the time, but I did think it odd at the time, and though he 'corrected' himself, not yet wanting to publicly say it's been decided against. |
He said, "We Looked at... We are looking at..."
I don't read into it at all what you do tbh. | | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 14:10 - Nov 28 with 252 views | The_Major |
40k would seem to be the most plausible, because quite aside from it being extremely questionable we'd fill anything bigger, we'd probably outgrow the site beyond that.
The SBR can't go any further back because of the houses on Alderman Road, the SAR would bring it very close indeed to the Churchmans flats and the Travelodge, and to have the seating required in the side stands to bring it to say, 45-50k, you'd need a Newcastle style gradient and end up being able to see Felixstowe from the back of the West Stand. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 17:38 - Nov 28 with 161 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:57 - Nov 28 by urbanpenguin |
He said, "We Looked at... We are looking at..."
I don't read into it at all what you do tbh. |
It's opinion of course, but for me, to say 'you looked' at something, and then quickly correcting it, suggests more than you're reading into it. I've seen this sort of corporate faux pas too often not to recognise it (and done it myself) 
It's a feeling given experience.
We'll have to agree to disagree, | | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 17:48 - Nov 28 with 152 views | Cafe_Newman |
36-38k seems logical.
That said, it may be 40k if people in the northern half of East Anglia want to watch something decent. |  | | |
| New Stand - Capacity on 18:42 - Nov 28 with 95 views | Jon_456 |
| New Stand - Capacity on 13:29 - Nov 28 by SuffolkPunchFC |
He actually caught himself, and adjust what he said if you relisten to it. I picked up on it at the time. He seemed to start by indicating we'd considered it (with seemingly an implication that it had been parked), and the seemed to catch that, and say 'we continue to look at it''
I may be reading too much into his phrasing at the time, but I did think it odd at the time, and though he 'corrected' himself, not yet wanting to publicly say it's been decided against. |
I noticed that too and assumed the same.
Hopefully we’re over analysing it as it would be nice to see both sides extended. | | | |
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